On Saturday, a rich 25-year-old man, Jovan Belcher, murdered his 22-year-old girlfriend, the mother of his child. First, columnist Jason Whitlock of Fox Sports suggested that this 25-year-old kid wasnt responsible for his actions  it was the gun culture that was to blame. Then, Bob Costas of NBC repeats this idiotic notion, even though the 62, 228 lb. linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs could easily have murdered his girlfriend with a knife.

Now CNN is getting in on the act. Leading their website this afternoon is an op-ed from Kevin Powell, former Democratic Congressional candidate in New York, and cast member on MTVs original season of The Real World. Powells contention: its Americas culture of manliness that led Belcher to blow away his girlfriend and then turn the gun on himself. That culture of manliness includes men hiding their emotion, machoness, and homophobia.

Can we just confiscate every gun in the hand of civilians?Then there would be zero deaths by gun violence.

But wait a minute....how do we get the guns from criminals and law breakers? I don’t think they will willingly give up their gun by suddenly abiding laws. They are law breakers in the first place because they do not follow law they do not like.

The liberals never explain how they will accomplish the task of getting guns out of the hands of law breakers. So if all guns were made illegal, only the law abiding people would have no guns while criminals still have them.

No thanks.

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posted on 12/03/2012 6:50:05 PM PST
by entropy12
(The republic is doomed when people figure out they can get free stuff by voting democrats)

Whats the big deal and fuss over this loser?? The way I see it he did America a Favor and the Liberals and Demoncrats should be proud of this guy, He successfully performed 2 post-term Abortions at no cost to the Taxpayers.

The demise is scripted out already. One state will stand up by 2016 and present evidence of concussions causing damage to high school players. It’ll take two years but they will determine that both ice hockey and football have to terminate. A year later...two more states outlaw it...even at the college level. These states will be ones without NFL franchises.

So a debate will occur. Meanwhile, in the states affected, there are no more kids recruited for football. The decent kids who had chances in these three states? Their parents move to southern states where the kid still has a chance. By 2025, another four states will join, with California outlawing high school football entirely by that point. It spells the eventual demise of all college football in the state.

Somewhere by 2030, the NFL comes to an end. With retired players in their 40s and 50s carrying out lawsuits...the NFL can no longer operate at a profitable level. It ends with a great curiosity over what sport can survive and take over in the fall?

Where is the National Organization of Women making a statement on violence against women? It was not just a murder. It was 6 hours of fighting then a killing manifest of 9 gunshots. Was this woman abused? Need to look into it. Was this steroid rage in action? Need to look into that. Was this killing a result of drug-induced altered state of consciousness? Need to look into that. Way, way, way, way down the list in gun violence. I wonder, If she had had a weapon, would he have killed her? Could she have defended herself and killed her assailant? Perhaps. Now, it is too late to ocnsider that which is unknowable.

Obama voters should not be allowed to own guns. They could care less about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights so I don’t think that they’d have a problem with that. Besides, they all wet themselves when somebody shows them a picture of a gun.

We have become a pretty sick society when people are no longer responsible for their actions..its always someone elses fault..when people buy a house they can’t afford and it gets foreclosed, its not their fault for buying a house they can’t afford, nope, its the fault of the bank..or when someone drives drunk and kills someone, its not the fault of the driver, nope, its the fault of the alcohol or the car..its always someone elses fault..no one takes responsibility for anything anymore..its Obama’s America, where no one is to blame..well, no one except for Bush of course

Bob Costas is a guy, a photogenic guy, who comments on things he himself has never done with any degree of competency, i.e., sports. In other words, he is a pretty face who exercises his lips. He has no other expertise in his subject area.

Costas’ commentary on societal norms and laws is the commentary of, at best, an observer, a non-participant (he doesn’t move about in normal society, he is above it). He is another example of celebrity delusion. Because he regularly has the opportunity to speak to millions, he assumes it is because of who he is and what he knows rather than, simply, what he does for a living.

In reality he is at best a naif too full of himself, and at worst a self-appointed judge, presuming to render a verdict on things he really doesn’t understand.

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posted on 12/03/2012 7:24:04 PM PST
by Belteshazzar
(We are not justified by our works but by faith - De Jacob et vita beata 2 +Ambrose of Milan)

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